Spatialedge
The Go-to Partner for AI, ML, and Big Data Solutions

A world without data is no longer imaginable; it sounds surrealistic, given the copious volume of data generated every second. Exciting as this may sound, data is futile unless put into action, and this highlights the need for businesses to embrace the capabilities of AI/ML and tap the full potential of their data asset. AI/ML is converging into a business value-generating engine with its ability to facilitate business decisions and augment operational excellence.

While a promising prospect, achieving this by tapping into a swamp of data and turning this into money is not as easy as pushing a button.

Spatialedge, a pragmatic machine learning solution provider, can help in this regard.

Backed by a powerful team of problem-solvers who are curious and open-minded to follow data, Spatialedge is ideally positioned to assist clients in continuously creating business value at high speed and low risk with AI. Established as a brainchild of Retief Gerber, a seasoned professional with in-depth technical know-how and research expertise in AI, it develops unique, result-driven solutions that help clients maximize business opportunities. Spatialedge follows a stage-gate approach and leverages customized use cases to deliver data-driven AI/ML solutions that help derive business value, ascertain scalable benefits, empower effective customer acquisition, and dominate the market competition.

“We always strive to leverage the right mix of human intuition and machine intelligence, a powerful combination delivering high value for businesses,” says Gerber, CEO of Spatialedge.

Lying at the heart of Spatialedge’s bespoke enterprise AI apps is its AI toolkit that entails a SE data platform, industry-best practices, and highly skilled experts.It accelerates the development of solutions, helping quickly and efficiently deliver real business value to its broad clientele. Testament to its operational excellence is the wide range of solutions team Spatialedge has developed over the years for various enterprise applications, like markdown, pricing, routing, stock and call-center optimization, risk assessment, and retail predictions.

Spatialedge’s stock optimization solution, for example, allows an online or physical store, shopping center, catchment area, or property to gain insights on purchase actions and inventory and forecast product trade-offs in potential locations. It creates fit-for-purpose data assets, high-performance feature stores, and comparisons of conventional market businesses to create promotions and discounts.

Businesses with physical footprints stand to benefit from the ever-growing importance of digitalizing business operations with Spatialedge’s real-time and batch-based systems that funnel critical information to practical decision-makers. It has a longstanding track record of resolving the conventional hurdles to AI/ ML implementations across small, immature, and complex client engagements with personalized enterprise-level AI applications, high-performing ML models, and business case proof-of-concept that seamlessly integrate with an organization’s system.

Illustrating Spatialedge’s value proposition is its collaboration with Pepkor, a leading investment firm concerned about their expensive, complex, and slow-basket analyses, practices, and tools for investigating POS data issues. They wanted to develop a flexible and easy-to-use basket analysis decision app (BADA) to incorporate predictive and prescriptive analytics. Spatialedge designed a new BADA solution with an intuitive, user-friendly interface that automatically streamlines data for quick analysis, improving planning efficiency to draft timely proposals and accelerating the staff onboarding process. Pepkor’s AI and ML investments with Spatialedge brought a real value contribution of R235 million through retail success and agile business operations.

Spatial edge’s portfolio continues to grow, enabling businesses to make more optimal decisions. Moving forward, its AI and ML solutions will help businesses understand the importance of data-driven decisions in today’s ever-growing enterprising environment.